Slowly opening my eyes, I saw blurred images and voices of those people who I had left. Coldness was rushing up to overtake my vision. Blackness.

Sitting up abruptly, I took in my surroundings. I lay upon a branch of a strong oak tree, a good twenty feet off the ground. Memories of yesterday came flooding back to me; I was in the Everfree forest, I had come here after “speaking” with Celestia. How I had gotten so high up in this tree eluded me however. Stretching, my arms, legs, wings, an……WINGS!?!?!?!?! Looking down I was shocked to see the body of a dull purple pegasus where my normal teen body should have been. I continued my examination in awe; I had a peculiar mane that seemed to drift of my neck like smoke, disappearing a few feet away from me, it was jet black. Looking to my flank, I noticed a distinct lack of any ‘cutie mark’. “Of course…” Turning I examined my wings, surprised at how natural it felt to move them. They were made of feathers and were a good 5 feet in length; they were same dull purple as my fur.

“Well I guess that explains how I got up in this tree…” I muttered to myself. I had never been one for change. This being so, I wasn’t taking this situation so well. Sliding off the branch I tried hovering with my wings, I was partially successful, until my right wing clipped a branch and sent me sprawling several feet down.

“Owwwww…” I rubbed my neck which felt surprising little pain considering I had landed on it. By all rights I should be dead, again, I had even heard my neck crack as it broke, yet here I was rubbing it like I had gotten hit by a pillow. Trying to brush my mane up over my head I hit something that solid. “What the hell?” I picked myself up and limped over to a small pond I had missed. Looking into it, a purple unicorn stared back up at me; its crimson red eyes were unnerving and unnatural. Putting two and two together, I realized I had both wings and a horn. An alicorn, but how, and why did I transform into this ridiculous, yet cool, form?

‘I bet her royal bitchness has something to do with this…then again could she even do this if she wanted to?’ Reminiscing on my old body, I felt a strange buzzing feeling as a hum began in my ears. Looking down at my reflection, I was amazed to see a crimson aura surrounding me, it grew brighter, and brighter. Suddenly a flash of blood red light was immediately followed by the all too familiar feeling of unconsciousness.  

Blinded again as I slowly opened my eyes, I brought up my hand to block the sun. My hand? Sitting upright again, I gawked as I noticed my human body still fully clothed, in all its realistic glory. What the hell was that “hallucination” I had experienced moments earlier, standing up and walking slowly over to the pond I been lying near, I kneeled and dipped my hand into the cold water. Taking a deep drink I felt my thirst fade, facing the pond once again, I smiled content to see my normal human face. Although something was off…my normally hazel eyes were now a deep crimson in color.

‘So that hadn’t been a dream? Then how was I now human, once again? What does this all mean?’ Unsurprisingly I received no answers, only more questions. Standing up once more I began walking back the way I had come, easily able to follow the trees I had left marks with a sharp rock I had picked up in field near the edge of the forest. I might be directionally impaired, but at least I had common sense, something that seemed rare nowadays, although it was inspired my Hansel and Gretel only difference being that it worked.

Eventually after an hour of tripping over fallen branches and getting smacked in the face by low lying branches, I had reached the edge of the forest. Sighing (It’s a bad habit) I slowly trudged onwards to what would certainly be an unpleasant encounter. After all I had been through over the past two days, I still felt…………..empty. How would these ponies that lived in what seemed to be a utopian society full of peace and friendship, understand the deep sadness, the loneliness of solitude and the crushing knowledge that things would never be alright again.  I wondered if I would ever be able to relate to anyone here, or even be able to live here at all. But what was really on my mind was the question of why and how I was here, and what those…..those dreams meant.

I was snapped backed into reality as I walked face first into a solid wooden wall. ‘Oh for fuck’s sake, why do people keep leaving walls where ever I walk’. Picking myself up, I carefully walked around to the entrance of the library. To my surprise, there were two of Celestia’s “chauffers” on either side of the door. Their armor glistened in the midday sun.

“Uhhh….Hi?” The solemn look on their faces never changed, not even to acknowledge my existence. “Ok I’m just going to head in then…” As I reached for the door, they leapt into action raising their golden spears to deny me entry. “I take it that means, I’m not supposed to go in. Fine I’ll play your game; I got all the time in the world, and then some.” Crossing my arms to accent my annoyed glare, I turned slowly and walked over to a nearby log to wait for whatever was going on inside.

“You can’t be serious princess; you want that human to live here?” Twilight was still stunned by her mentor’s request.

“Would you rather let him wander the countryside, stirring up trouble and inciting panic?” Celestia’s stern face buffered her point.

“But, couldn’t he live in your castle?”

“Preferably the dungeon!” Dash added

“I can’t have that human anywhere near the Canterlot Archives, he might learn too much.” Celestia ignored Dashes comment.

“Then he will stay here.” Twilight groaned glumly “What if he gets violent, or tries to run again?”

“I will be leaving my guards at the entrance to the library.” Celestia stated as she trotted to the door “If he gives you any trouble they’ll handle him.” Opening the door she found Louis on the ground brawling with her guards. “Maybe I’ll leave a few more just in case…”

Two Hours Later

“It wasn’t my fault, I just asked them if Celestia happened to be as annoying to them as she is to me…” I flung to emphasize “Next thing I know they tackled me, wouldn’t you fight back?”

“No.” Twilight stated dryly as she continued studying what appeared to be a tome about spells.

“Ugh, you’re so boring. Where’s Spike? I want to tell him how dragons were portrayed back where I’m from.” I grinned, thinking back to the countless dragons I had slain throughout my gaming exploits.

“He won’t be here as long as you stay here.” She stated once again, she turned to meet my stare, and gasped quietly. “What happened to your eyes, they weren’t like that last time we talked.” She got in my face studying them. Shrugging her off I headed to where I would be sleeping, in the basement on a pile of paper, with a few of the library’s curtains as a makeshift blanket.

“I don’t want to talk about it…” I muttered continuing my decent into the musty basement, which would be my bedroom for my stay. “Let’s just say I had a bad dream and leave it at that.” With that I shut the door behind me. Lying down on my makeshift bed, I thought over what my new eye color really meant. ‘Well time will tell, and I have plenty to spare.’ Closing my eye’s I accepted sleep’s generous caress.

Dear Celestia,

Louis, as he calls himself, hasn’t shown any hostile intentions since your departure. In fact if I had to guess how he felt it would be curious, he asked if he could see Discord’s statue, and mentioned how he wanted to tell Spike about the dragons from where he came from. His eye color seems to have changed since he went for that walk; they now appear to be a deep crimson hue, as opposed to his earlier green eyes. I do not think it’s all that important, but he seemed hesitant to speak about it. I will look into it, and see if I can figure out what happened. Although we haven’t talked much, I have hope that we may become friends despite the differences. I will continue with these daily reports until you deem them unnecessary.

Your Faithful Student,

Twilight Sparkle

Yes I know cliché transformations, but I promise it will be important to the plot latter on. Not much new has occurred other then Louis taking up residence with Twilight. There will be no sexual relationship between my OC and anypony, although I do plan to try and build a slight friendship between him and the ponies. If you hadn’t figured it out this takes place after Return of Harmony Part 2, Lesson Zero will be happening, but in a different way, expect it to be just as full with crazy Twilight as the cannon, if not more so. Also I have stopped writing an intro commentary, so as to not ruin the stories flow. Anyways, thanks for reading, and please review, it would be nice to know if people actually like my writing.

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

Aristotle-